Nvidia announces new GeForce 980M and 970M mobile GPUs

Now that desktop GPUs have had their turn, it's time for mobile machines to get an upgrade

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Following suit with last month's unveiling of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and 970 desktop GPUs at Game24, Nvidia has today unveiled the mobile component of its Maxwell architecture with the GeForce GTX 980M and 970M gaming on-the-go GPUs.

Similar to its desktop-bound brethren, expect the new line of GPUs to improve certain aspects of the rendering process – like multi-frame sampling anti-aliasing and dynamic super resolution – by nearly two-fold while keeping the bottom panels cool to the touch.

An Nvidia representative told TechRadar that gamers can also expect smoother performance during ShadowPlay and GameStream using the latest GPUs – a trick the company took from this year's mildly successful Shield Tablet.

Who's got the goods?

If you're looking to upgrade, you won't have to wait long. Maingear has already announced a refresh to its Nomad line of 17-inch slates (seen below), while rumor has it that companies like MSI and Digital Storm aren't far behind in their 980M and 970M-packed rosters, either.

Now you're playing with power! (I've always wanted to write that...)

Here are the technical specs of the Maingear Nomad, just so you can get an idea of what manufacturers have planned for Maxwell on mobile: